Receptivity of a supersonic two-dimensional jet due to acoustic excitations near the nozzle lip

In this paper, we develop an analytical model to investigate the generation of instability waves triggered by the upstream acoustic forcing near the nozzle lip of a supersonic jet. This represents an important stage, i.e. the jet receptivity, of the screech feedback loop. The upstream acoustic forcing, resulting from the shock-instability interaction (SII), reaches the nozzle lip and excites new shear-layer instability waves. To obtain the newly excited instability wave, we first determine the scattered sound field due to the upstream forcing using the Wiener–Hopf technique, with the kernel function factored using asymptotic expansions and overlapping approximations. Subsequently, the unsteady Kutta condition is imposed at the nozzle lip, enabling the derivation of the dispersion relation for the newly excited instability wave. A linear transfer function between the upstream forcing and the newly excited instability wave is obtained. We calculate the amplitude and phase delay in this receptivity process and examine their variations against the frequency. The analytically obtained phase delay enables us to evaluate the phase condition for jet screech and predict the screech frequency accordingly. The results show improved agreement with the experimental data compared with classical models. It is hoped that this model may help in developing a full screech model.